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Isaiah 13:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They are coming from a distant land, from the farthest horizon – the Lord and the weapons of his wrath – to destroy the whole country.

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He will send out his angels with a loud trumpet,   and they will gather his elect from the four winds,   from one end of the sky to the other.


Sharpen the arrows! Fill the quivers! The Lord has roused the spirit of the kings of the Medes because his plan is aimed at Babylon to destroy her, for it is the  Lord’s vengeance, vengeance for his temple.


For I will soon stir up and bring against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country. They will line up in battle formation against her; from there she will be captured. Their arrows will be like a skilled   warrior who does not return empty-handed.


For a nation from the north will attack her; it will make her land desolate. No one will be living in it – both people and animals will escape.  ,


Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:


Look! I am stirring up the Medes against them, who cannot be bought off with   silver and who have no desire for gold.


He raises a signal flag for the distant nations and whistles  for them from the ends of the earth. Look #– #how quickly and swiftly they come!


How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!


On that day the Lord will whistle  to flies at the farthest streams of the Nile and to bees in the land of Assyria.


Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger – the staff in their hands is my wrath.


Go, my people, enter your rooms and close your doors behind you. Hide for a little while until the wrath has passed.


Look! The name of the  Lord is coming from far away, his anger burning and heavy with smoke. His lips are full of fury, and his tongue is like a consuming fire.


The Lord is angry with all the nations, furious with all their armies. He will set them apart for destruction, giving them over to slaughter.


All of you, assemble and listen! Who among the idols  has declared these things? The Lord loves him; he will accomplish his will against Babylon, and his arm will be against the Chaldeans.


You will see, you will rejoice, and you  will flourish like grass; then the Lord’s power will be revealed to his servants, but he will show his wrath against his enemies.


Listen #– #the cry of my dear people from a faraway land, ‘Is the Lord no longer in Zion, her King not within her? ’ Why have they angered me with their carved images, with their worthless foreign idols?


The Lord opened his armoury and brought out his weapons of wrath, because it is a task of the Lord God of Armies in the land of the Chaldeans.


So I have poured out my indignation on them and consumed them with the fire of my fury. I have brought their conduct down on their own heads.’  This is the declaration of the Lord God.





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